“Even though it sometimes might seem like the opposite is true, I have always found goodness in the people I’ve met everywhere I went in the world,” Zhao said. “So this is for anyone who had the faith and the courage to hold onto the goodness in themselves and to hold onto the goodness in each other no matter how difficult it is to do that. This is for you, you inspire me to keep going....
Indeed, CODA is the first streaming film to win Best Picture, breaking through a ceiling that Netflix has continually struggled with year after year, including this year when the evening’s seeming frontrunner, The Power of the Dog, nearly went home empty-handed save for a major Oscar win for Jane Campion as Best Director. The tides were clearly turning, too, after CODA unexpectedly beat Campion and Power of the Dog in the Best Adapted Screenplay category....
This week’s Outlander feels like two episodes in one. Strong performances from the entire cast supported a script that streamlined many book chapters into an hour and 10 minutes. The dysentery outbreak in the first half is seamlessly linked to the shocking cliff-hanger ending through Claire’s hallucinations, but sorry history nerds: the Hamilton song lyric episode title is more about the shocking cliff-hanger than the war! Roger finishes another Sunday sermon at the meetinghouse but realizes the MacNeil family is missing....
Parks’ cheery portrayal of competent, well-meaning civil servants running into the grossly ill-informed, misplaced anger of their constituents has earned it the reputation of being the defining comedy of the Obama era. Throughout the tumultuous and divisive Trump presidency, populated with government employees who seemed as outwardly hostile toward the departments that they represented as Ron Swanson, fans and critics wrote about finding solace in old episodes of the NBC comedy....
It’s been long established in Poké lore that Mewtwo, a Frankenstein-like creature created by man in an attempt to clone Mew, is the most powerful Pocket Monster in existence. But his role in Detective Pikachu took what we knew about the loquacious psychic to a whole new level. By the time the movie is over, it is revealed that Mewtwo has captured the soul of Harry Goodman and is responsible for putting it in the body of Pikachu… hence Ryan Reynolds’ personality inside of an adorable electric rodent....
Pokémon Legends: Arceus launches on Jan. 28, but won’t be playable in every region of the world at the same time. So what time does the game unlock if you’re in the US or UK? If we use previous first-party Nintendo game releases to make an educated guess, it’s probably safe to assume the game will officially release and be playable at midnight in your local time zone on Jan....
Power Rangers Dino Fury is set to debut this year but that hasn’t stopped fans from clamoring for any amount of information they can get. Since the cast was revealed in October we haven’t gotten much outside of a few comments from executive producer Simon Bennett. Thankfully the official Power Rangers website was just updated with information on the new season, including character bios, town name, and information on the Rangers’ Zords....
When it comes to the entertainment of the unexplained, or paranormal pop culture, humans live in a world(s) populated by all manner of preternatural, supernatural, otherworldly, and extradimensional phenomena. But entertainment also tells us there are rules that bring order to the abnormal – whether it’s a ghost or demon, alien or sasquatch, werewolf or vampire, or even a troll or fairy. Yet behind every silver bullet solution that makes it into a script, there is typically a wealth of academic study that’s both complicated, and sometimes contradictory....
For years, frightened mortals have been driving stakes into hungry creatures of the night, beautiful, but deadly in their eternal allure. Often coming up dry, results are universally messy, and mostly unappetizing. Now Syfy sticks a straw into the heart of the vampire mystique, and it’s yummier than it sounds. Reginald the Vampire stars Jacob Batalon as the new bloodsucker on the block, and he’s fairly gluttonous. Best known for playing Spider-Man’s best friend Ned Leeds, he is now buddying up with the undead, and battling the genre’s most insidious stereotypes....
It’s a bit of a shame that the game doesn’t do a little better job of explaining the relationship between those phrases, as the true meaning of all of them, and the various ways they’re connected, form the foundation of not just this sequel’s plot but much of the Resident Evil franchise’s lore. If you’re one of the many who just finished Resident Evil Village without fully understanding why the game was suddenly throwing a bunch of new words at you, here’s what you need to know about Megamycete, Mold, and Cadou as well as how they’re all related to each other:...
The interview doesn’t give away a lot of details we didn’t already know or suspected to be true, but it does feature a few interesting pieces of information for what has thus far been a very mysterious project. That’s especially true of Chris Redfield who was mentioned far more often in this interview than he’s been talked about in any of the official descriptions of Resident Evil Village that we’ve seen in the past....
This Riverdale review contains spoilers. Since making her comic book debut in late 1941, Betty Cooper has become an archetype (and Archie’s type, well, one of them) for the so-called all American girl next door. Beautiful and blonde were her original personality traits. However, the comics were much smarter than to just let Betty become a tired ditzy stereotype. Through the writing of Archie legends like Frank Doyle, George Gladir and Kathleen Webb, Betty Cooper was transformed into a character to be reckoned with....
Riverdale Season 6 Episode 12 “Hold your loved ones close, the Fog is coming!” Riverdale loves a good pop culture homage. Having tipped its creative hat to everything from Creepshow to Grease 2 over the course of its six seasons to date, this is not a series that is afraid to wear its influences on its sleeve. Since the show is standing firmly upon horror/sci-fi ground right now it makes sense to focus on a creepy cult classic for its latest extended reference....
According to THR, the Patty Jenkins-directed project was set to begin pre-production later this year and go in front of cameras sometime in 2022. But now, per the outlet, the project is being put on the back burner because of other commitments on the part of Jenkins. It’s not clear if writer Matthew Robinson will stay attached to the movie. The unsourced quote that is sure to raise a few eyebrows is this one: “The hope is that once Jenkins fulfills her previous commitments, she will be able to return to the project....
SAS: Rogue Heroes Release Date The swaggering historical drama begins airing on BBC One this Sunday 30th October at 9pm and will air weekly until Sunday the 4th of December. Even better news for binge-watchers: the full six-part box set will also be available on BBC iPlayer once the first episode finishes. In the US, you’ll be able to watch the series on Epix starting on November 13th. Here’s the trailer: Cairo, 1941....
As some Roses finally achieve their dream of leaving Schitt’s Creek in the bittersweet series finale, others put down deeper roots. On the surface, the Rose family finds itself back where it started—that is, with enough disposable income to plan a future beyond the walls of their motel. But in all the ways that matter, they are not the same people who reluctantly retreated to this podunk town four years ago....
The sequence, which occurs during the ninth episode of Game of Thrones’ first season, ominously titled “Baelor,” is the one that came to define the show’s reputation for cruel thrills, and an unsentimental mean streak that allowed it to kill major protagonists off without a seeming second thought (a fact that still surprised fans, to their eventual anger, all the way up to the series finale). And there was apparently no forethought at all from King Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson), the vicious boy king who gave the order to claim poor dead Ned’s head....
As referenced in the new “Star Trek Day” trailer for Picard Season 2, Q did warn Jean-Luc in “All Good Things…” that “the trial never ends.” But what does that mean exactly? In Picard Season 2, it appears that Q has done something in Earth’s past that has caused the “present” (roughly 2399) to become as Jean-Luc says a “totalitarian” version of Earth. But, Q’s whole point to Picard in TNG was that humanity was always on the brink of this kind of awful situation anyway....
For its first five episodes, Star Trek: Prodigy has mostly established its own identity, free and separate from the rest of the Trek franchise. Yes, a holographic Captain Janeway is an essential part of the crew, and yes, several episodes have touched on themes we’ve seen before. But, in terms of making nitty-gritty references to the larger canon of Trek, Prodigy has kept things pretty low-key. Until now… After taking a brief hiatus, Prodigy Season 1 is back with episode 6 titled just “Kobayashi....
Star Wars: The Bad Batch Episode 5 Over the weekend, I watched The Clone Wars with a friend. She likes the clones themselves a lot, so we jumped around a bit between episodes that focused on them. When I got to the Bad Batch arc, I warned her the humor was broad, the action goofy, the characters stock types. But she adored it. This team is the team in every war movie, she said, and loved them for their distillation of these archetypes she had such fondness for, such genre expectations around....
